Small group behaviour experiments in the Coven project

Author

Tromp, Jolanda ; Bullock, Adrian ; Steed, Anthony ; Sadagic, Amela ; Slater, Mel ; Frécon, Emmanuel

Author_Institution

Nottingham Univ., UK

Volume

18

Issue

6

fYear

1998

Firstpage

53

Lastpage

63

Abstract

The Collaborative Virtual Environments (Coven) project, a four-year European project launched in October 1995, designs and explores collaborative virtual environment (CVE) technology. It aims to investigate the feasibility of scalable CVE worlds through developing CVE systems and demonstrating prototype applications in a virtual travel rehearsal scenario. Our experiments in collaborative virtual environments investigated group behavior issues such as relationships between emergent leadership and computational resources, and the sense of presence and copresence among participants

Keywords

groupware; human factors; user interfaces; virtual reality; Collaborative Virtual Environments project; Coven project; European project; computational resources; emergent leadership; prototype applications; small group behaviour; virtual travel rehearsal scenario; Application software; Avatars; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Computer architecture; Computer science; Large screen displays; Virtual environment; Virtual prototyping; Voltage control;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0272-1716

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/38.734980

Filename

734980